Author: Isaiah Jerome Lewis Poole
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Progressive Caucus \’Better Off Budget\’ Plan: 9 Million Jobs In 3 Years
The Caucus\’ proposal is a loud and audacious rebuke to conservative austerity economics. It will be a sharp contrast to the budget expected to be introduced in April by House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Paul Ryan.
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Most Small Businesses Want A Minimum Wage Increase, Poll Says
Fifty-seven percent of small businesses in a new survey said they support a $10.10 minimum wage. They think an increase in the minimum wage is good for their bottom line and would be good for taxpayers.
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Paul Ryan Misses Top Reason We Haven\’t \’Won\’ The War On Poverty
The economic actions and trends that have hollowed out the middle class and led to massive wealth concentration at the top 1 percent are not even mentioned in Ryan\’s \”War on Poverty\” report.
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Next GOP Job-Killing Budget Is A Chance To Offer A Real Jobs Agenda
House Speaker John Boehner has announced that Republicans plan to offer another budget proposal from Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chair, for fiscal 2015. Progressives should relish what\’s to come.
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Tell House Members to Put The Minimum Wage To A Vote
It\’s time to tell Boehner to, as he likes to say, let the House work its will. Use our click-to-call tool to ask your member of Congress to sign the discharge petition to put an increase in the minimum wage on the House floor.
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Know Who Is \”Cashing In On Kids\”
In the Public Interest and the American Federation of Teachers offer progressive education activists a new resource for pushing back against efforts to turn public schools into private profit centers.
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Bobby Jindal\’s Phone and Pen, In Service To Plutocrats And Ideologues
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, before his attention-getting stunt outside the White House this week, offered up a 10-point agenda to \”jump-start growth\” that withers under the harsh light of reality.
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It\’s Time To Update How We Fund Transportation Projects
Ninety-five years after the institution of the first gasoline tax, what we\’re paying to maintain and improve the network hasn\’t kept pace. A bill pending in the House calls for an update.
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How Sen. Mark Kirk Stabbed His Own Voters By Blocking Jobless Benefits
Ted Drost was a six-figure executive who voted for Illinois Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. Now Drost is among the long-term unemployed, and he says Kirk \”turned his back on me\” by voting to block a renewal of jobless benefits.
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House of Cads: Netflix Show Plays Ransom Drama With Taxpayers
A show about rough Washington politics gets rough in real life, demanding that Maryland taxpayers fork over more subsidies or else it will move its filming operation to the state that will allow the biggest tax ripoff.